Necropolis - Necropolis A necropolis is a cemetery or burying-place, literally a "city of the dead". Apart from the occasional application of the word to modern cemeteries outside large towns, the term is chiefly used of burial grounds near the sites of the centers of ancient civilizations. See also Death related Cemetery Catacombs Places Great Pyramid of Giza Memphis, Egypt Cairo, Egypt Saqqara, Egypt Lipari (Aeolian Islands) Locri (Ionian Sea) Amathus, Cyprus Ugarit (northern Syria) Rookwood Cemetery The Panthéon (Paris, France) Other List of ley lines This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica..
London Necropolis Company - London Necropolis Company The London Necropolis Company, also London Necropolis & National Mausoleum Company, was set up in 1850, and established by Act of Parliament in 1852. Its purpose was to create a large metropolitan cemetery, big enough to hold all of London's dead forever. Brookwood Cemetery was set up at Brookwood near Woking , and by 1854 it was the largest cemetery in the world. The London Necropolis Company was dissolved around 1975, and the cemetery has been administered privately since. External Links Brookwood Cemetery Brookwood Cemetery History.
KV55 - suggest that it is Smenkhkare. One possibility which has been suggested, if the mummy is indeed that of Smenkhkare, is that the tomb at one point held Tiy, Akhenaten and Smenkhkare; when it was later opened (possibly as a result of being discovered during the excavation of KV6, the tomb of Ramses IX, immediately above it) two mummies were removed, with the intent of leaving the heretic's desecrated coffin, but a mistake in identity was made. Web Links Theban Mapping Project - Plans of the tomb and other details. TourEgypt page on KV55 - Includes details on the discovery of the tomb and some photos of objects found there. Further Reading Theodore M. Davis, Nicholas Reevs, The Tomb of Queen Tiyi (reprinted KMT Communications, 1990) John Romer, Valley of the Kings.
KV62 - though Tutankhamun was a minor Pharaoh, for the first time, it was possible to get an idea of the riches which were buried with an Egyptian king, and they were truly astounding. Considering also that his tomb was somewhat small, one can only wonder what more important Pharaohs had buried with them. It is often said that Tutankhamun's tomb was never violated, but this is not true. In fact, it was entered at least twice, and not long after he was buried. There is clear evidence that the sealed doors were breached in the upper corners, and later resealed. It is estimated that 60% of the jewelry which had been stored in the so-called Treasury was removed. Necropolis officials tried to set things right, but they did so hastily, repacking boxes.
Victor Hugo - and a large body of poetry. His death, and the spontaneous national mourning which followed, inspired the French government to reinvent The Panthéon in Paris as a temple in homage to the great men (and, eventually, women) of France. He is buried in its necropolis. Although Hugo is better known to the English-speaking world as a novelist, it was as a poet that he broke new ground. The French poetic traditions were as well-established in his time as the English ones were before the time of the Romantic poets, and Hugo's contribution may be compared with that of Wordsworth. He believed that the poet's purpose should be two-fold: to echo universal sentiment by revealing his own feelings, uniting the voices of mankind, nature and history. to guide the reader: "faire flamboyer.
Judge Death - Judge Dredd Monthly series Young Death- Boyhood of a Superfiend. The representation of Judge Death in the Judge Dredd and related comic strips has changed somewhat in character over the years. In his first appearances his image was extremely dark and sinister, with a real air of menace. However post Necropolis stories have tended to present him in a much more humourous light. For instance in the Judge Dredd/Batman crossover graphic novel Judgement on Gotham Death was used as a practically comical figure. See also Judge Anderson, Sisters of Death, Necropolis.
Judge Kraken - to detect lingering traces of loyalty to the creed of the Judda, and failed Kraken, who was then sentenced to death by lethal injection. Immeadiatly following this assessment, Dredd announced his resignation from the judges, and took 'the long walk' into the Cursed Earth. However, Chief Judge Silver had secretly ordered that Kraken be spared from execution, and, over-ruling Dredd's decision, appointed him a full judge. He furthermore covered up Dredd's disappearance from the city by using Kraken to assume his identity (See Countdown to Necropolis). Shortly afterwards Kraken was visited by the Sisters of Death, who, by manipulating his doubts and confusion, were able to control his mind. They used him to trap Psi Judge Kit Agee, whose body they used as a psychic dimension bridge between Mega City One.
Ugarit - Old Testament, its location was forgotten but rediscovered in 1928 by a female peasant of the Alaouite tribe plowing a field, accidentally opening an old tomb. The discovered area was the Necropolis of Ugarit. Excavations have since revealed an important city that takes its place alongside Ur and Eridu as a cradle of urban culture, with a prehistory reaching back to ca 6000 BCE. Ugarit sent tribute to Egypt and maintained trade and diplomatic connections with Cyprus, documented in the archives recovered from the site and corroborated by Mycenaean and Cypriot pottery found there. Scribes in Ugarit appear to have originated the alphabet about 1400 BCE; 30 letters, corresponding to sounds, were adapted from cuneiform characters and inscribed on clay tablets (but cf. Byblos). Eventually the Phoenician heirs of Ugaritic culture.
Great Pyramid of Giza - Khufu (also known under his Greek name Cheops). The estimated date of its completion is 2570 BC and it is the earliest and largest of the three great pyramids in the Giza necropolis on the outskirts of modern Cairo, Egypt. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Description 2 Construction 3 Paranormal interest and encoded numbers 4 See also 5 External Links Description Great Pyramid of Giza 19th century stereopticon card photo'' South-west of Khufu's Great Pyramid lies the pyramid of Khafre, one of Khufu's successors who also built the Sphinx, and further south-west there's the pyramid of Menkaure, Khafre's successor. Both of these are smaller than Khufu's pyramid, even though Khafre's appears taller on some photographs as it is somewhat steeper and built on higher terrain. The Great Pyramid is 137 metress.
Undercity (Judge Dredd) - as "the Undercity". The undercity is inhabited by various mutants and criminals (or perps as they are known in the comic), and has featured in several Judge Dredd stories, the most significant of which have been The Day the Law Died, in which Dredd and a small band of rebel Judges (along with undercity denizen Fergee) lead the resistance against the insane Judge Cal, and Necropolis, in which Judges Dredd, Anderson, McGruder and a small band of Cadet Judges use the Big Smelly river (previously the Ohio River) to travel beneath the city in order to avoid and fight back against the Sisters of Death..
El Escorial - community of Madrid in Spain. At the foot of the Sierra de Guadarrama mountain range, the complex was commanded by King Philip II of Spain as a necropolis for the Spanish monarchs and the seat of studies in aid of the Counter-Reformation. It was designed by the architects Juan Bautista de Toledo, Giambattista Castello, and Juan de Herrera in an austere classical style, and built from 1563 to 1584. It's shaped as a grid in memory of the martyrdom of Saint Lawrence. It is said that during the battle of Saint Quentin, the Spanish troops destroyed a small hermitage devoted to the saint. As a compensation and thanking his victory, the King decided to dedicate the monastery to the saint. The complex has an enormous store of art, including works by.
Dark Judges - but merely weakened, and four years later, Judge Anderson was duped into returning to Deadworld, where she was forced to resurrect them. Armed with teleporter technologies, the four returned to Mega City One, leaving Anderson for dead. Anderson survived, however, and used the dimension warp technology against the Dark Judges, consigning them to limbo, the void between dimensions. This is where they were to remain for the next few years. Following Judge Dredd's resignation and his replacement by the ex-Judda Kraken (recounted in the Judge Dredd stories Tale of The Dead Man and Countdown to Necropolis respectively), the sisters of Death - Phobia and Nausea - used their powers to influence Kraken and rescue the Dark Judges from Limbo. With the Mega City One judge force under their control, the Dark.
Uzziah - golden altar. Azariah the high priest saw the tendency of such a daring act on the part of the king, and with a band of eighty priests he withstood him (2 Chr. 26:17), saying, "It appertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense." Uzziah was suddenly struck with leprosy while in the act of offering incense (26:19-21), and he was driven from the temple and compelled to reside in "a several house" to the day of his death (2 Kings 15:5, 27; 2 Chr. 26:3). He was buried in a separate grave "in the field of the burial which belonged to the kings" (2 Kings 15:7; 2 Chr. 26:23). "That lonely grave in the royal necropolis would eloquently testify to coming generations that all earthly monarchy must bow before the inviolable.
Tanis, Egypt - site of some of the action in the film Raiders of the Lost Ark. During the Twenty-first and Twenty-second dynasties, Tanis was the capital. There are ruins of the temple of Amon with obelisks and statues and a royal necropolis..
Amathus - x. 220, 531), of which traces can be seen inland (G. Mariti, i. 187; L. Ross, Inselreise, iv. 195; W. H. Engel, Kypros, i. 111 ff.). Ovid also mentions its sheep (Met. x. 227); the epithet Amathusia in Roman poetry often means little more than "Cypriote," attesting however the fame of the city. Amathus still flourished and produced a distinguished patriarch of Alexandria (Johannes Eleemon), as late as 606-616, and a ruined Byzantine church marks the site; but it was already almost deserted when Richard Coeur de Lion won Cyprus by a victory there over Isaac Comnenus in 1191. The rich necropolis, already partly plundered then, has yielded valuable works of art to New York and to the British Museum; but the city has vanished, except fragments of wall and of.
Amenhotep III - statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III that still stand in the Theban Necropolis. Amenhotep III was an Egyptian pharaoh of the XVIIIth dynasty. According to different authors he ruled ca. 1413-1377 BC, 1405-1367 BC, or 1386-1349 BC, following on from his father Thutmose IV. With his Chief Queen Tiy, he fathered Akhenaten, who would succeed him on the throne. Amenhotep appears to have been crowned while still a child, perhaps between the ages of 6 and 12. His lengthy reign was a period peace and prosperity and of artistic splendour. He built extensively at the temple of Karnak, including at least two pylons, a colonnade behind the new entrance, and a new temple to the goddess Ma'at. He also oversaw construction of another temple to her at Luxor. His mortuary temple on.
Brookwood Cemetery - Cemetery Brookwood Cemetery (aka the London Necropolis) was set up by the London Necropolis Company in the 1850s to house London's dead, since the capital was finding it increasingly difficult to locate the increasing population, both of living and dead. In 1854 it was the largest cemetery in the world (it is no longer). It was situated close to Woking, Surrey, and was accessible only by rail from a special cemetery station next to Waterloo. This station was demolished after suffering bomb damage during World War Two. A military cemetery was added in 1917 and contains some of the dead from World War One and World War Two. A military memorial was built in 1958..
Burials in the Valley of the Kings - Ramses VI Seti II Sethnakhte Siptah Tiy ? Thutmose IV Webensenu plus two other unknown individuals DB320 This astounding cache, located in the cliffs overlooking Hatshepsut's famous temple at Deir el-Bahri, was found to contain many of Egypt's most famous Pharaohs. They were found in a great state of disorder, many placed in other people's coffins, and several are still unidentified. Ahhotpe I Ahmose-Hentempet Ahmose-Henttimehu Ahmose-Inhapi Ahmose-Meryetaum Ahmose-Nofretiri Ahmose-Sipair Ahmose-Sitkamose Amenhotep I Amosis Bakt Djedptah-iufankh Duathathor-Henttawy Hatshepsut Isiemkheb Maatkare-Mutemhet Masaharta Merymose Nebseni Neskhons Nestanebt-ishru Nodjmet Paheripedjet Pediamun Pinudjem I Pinudjem II Rai Ramses I Ramses II Ramses III Ramses IX Seniu Seqenenre-Taa II Seti I Siamun Siese Sitamun Sutymose Tayuheret Tetisheri Thutmose I Thutmose II Thutmose III Wepmose Wepwawet-mose plus 8 other unidentified mummies. Further Reading John Romer, Valley of the.
The Panthéon - vast buidling 110 metres long by 84 metres wide, and 83 metres high. No less vast was its crypt. The foundations were laid in 1758, but due to financial difficulties, it was only completed after Soufflot's death (1780) by his pupil, Rondelet, in 1789. Completed at the height of the French Revolution, the new Revolutionary government ordered it to be changed from a church to a mausoleum for the interment of great Frenchmen. Twice since then it has reverted to being a church, only to become again a temple to the great men of France. Among those buried in its necropolis are Voltaire, Rousseau, Honoré Mirabeau, Marat, Victor Hugo, Émile Zola, Jean Moulin, Marie Curie, Rene Descartes, Louis Braille and Soufflot its architect. In 1851 physicist Jean Foucault proved the rotation.
Cairo - in both Africa and the Middle East. It is located on the banks and islands of the Nile in the north of Egypt. To the west is the city of Giza and the ancient necropolis of Memphis on the Giza plateau, with its three large pyramids including the Great Pyramid of Giza. To the south is the site of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis. The city contains the Museum of Mohammed Mahmoud Khalil and his Wife. Cairo is the only city in Africa with a metro system. History Founding Era of Westernization The first hints of westernization began under the successors to Mehemet Ali this included a railway connection to Alexandria in 1851. The period of great change really began under Isma'il Pasha in 1863. The construction of the Suez.
